Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is suing student loan provider Navient, though the company claims he is simply mimicking a previous lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (Photo by Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)

Student loan provider Navient has filed a motion to dismiss a federal lawsuit brought by the state of Pennsylvania, calling it a copycat lawsuit that is "pointless" and legally deficient.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro brought the lawsuit on behalf of the State against Navient, which services more than six million student loans nationally.

Claiming the complaint brought by Shapiro is an “unauthorized copycat lawsuit,” the motion to dismiss states, “this would unnecessarily burden the courts and parties, and would risk generating inconsistent rulings across the country.”

The motion to dismiss alleges that Shapiro’s complaint is “essentially cut and pasted from the CFPB’s long ago filed complaint.”

In Shapiro's lawsuit, Navient alleges that the state law claims brought by his office are preempted by federal law.

The motion to dismiss states, “The Higher Education Act expressly preempts the commonwealth’s state law claims regarding federal loan servicing by barring the enforcement of 'any disclosure requirements of any state law.'”

The motion to dismiss also states that Shapiro failed to show that Navient engaged in any unfair or deceptive practices with regards to student loans.

In the October complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Shapiro alleges Navient engaged in predatory loans by “peddling risky and expensive subprime loans that they knew or should have known were likely to default, and while servicing student loans, failed to perform core servicing duties, thereby causing harm to borrowers and cosigners.”